What Main Streets have over Wall Street
By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020 November 30, 2011 Far from America’s money center, community-based, farmer-owned and consumer-owned cooperative businesses in Minnesota are helping create jobs and wealth, and investing in their communities. That became...
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Safety measures reduce blasts at grain elevators
By Michael J. Crumb Associated Press / November 1, 2011 WICHITA, Kan.—No one needs to tell Steven Stallbaumer about the dangers of working in grain elevators. He was unloading fertilizer outside a Kansas elevator...
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Current Challenges in Financing Agricultural Cooperatives
David Barton, Michael Boland, Fabio Chaddad, and Eldon Eversull A review of JSTOR, an online system for archiving academic journals, reveals 1,921 unique citations—articles, proceedings papers, book reviews—for the word “cooperatives” in the American...
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OSHA is Coming to Visit. Are you ready?
Due to the unfortunate increase of grain engulfment incidences that have occurred this fall, OSHA has made it very clear they will be paying a visit to all of our Iowa coops within the...
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A Bright Future for Co-op Model
Published in C Magazine from CHS inc By Lani Jordan Michael Boland, University of Minnesota professor of agricultural economics and holder of the E. Fred Koller endowed chair in agribusiness management, joins Lynden Johnson,...
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